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I'm going down to PA tomorrow morning to help lay the groundwork for other volunteers in Philly and eastern PA. If you are feeling anxious about this election, try to channel this anxiety into something useful - write a letter to the editor, make some canvassing calls, or get your butt down to PA or whatever state near you is having a primary soon. Campaign staff are so overworked; any little thing you can do for them is really appreciated.
/drunken rant
MEMO
From: Howard Wolfson
To: The Press
Subject: Mississippi doesn't count
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We would just like to remind America that Mississippi doesn't count. As Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th Amendment until 1995, um...they're big stupid doo-doo heads. Couple their doo-doo-headness with the fact its name does note end in "-ennsylvania," and you can clearly see why we shouldn't respect their voices.
*End Transmission*
come on down. PA is going to need all hands on deck. The current focus, from a volunteer perspective, is to register as many new voters as possible.
Barack's visit to PA didn't even make the papers on the front page. He did a town hall in Bucks county (north of Phila) at a factory. Looks like he's working the 'blue collar' folks.
He's going to need to keep doing that.
But registering voters by March 24 is the key.
Also, keep in mind, fraud is in the air. Clinton's campaign HQ is in the same building as the Phila voter registration office.
I'm just sayin'...
Even if Florida and Michigan are added, for Hillary to win she's going to have to net 65% of the delegates. Barack needs about 45% of the remaining delegates.
I need to know how they can sit back and let Geraldine Ferraro sling racist statements. These reps do not represent their districts, they are taking care of their own self interests.
I have already pledged never to vote for Hilary Clinton. I also let my congressional representative know that my vote for her is at stake also, unless I see a public statement from her
Who is your representative?
We should also note that Hillary's campaign manager, Maggie Williams, is also African-American.
i'm not being facetious.
Washington, DC - The Members of Florida's Democratic Delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives issued the following statement regarding the seating of Florida's delegates at the DNC National Convention this August.
"We are committed to working with the DNC, the Florida State Democratic party, our Democratic leaders in Florida, and our two candidates to reach an expedited solution that ensures our 210 delegates are seated.
"Our House delegation is opposed to a mail-in campaign or any redo of any kind."
Unless minds are changed, the DNC will be faced with the choice of either seating a delegation that should vote for Hillary Clinton, given her "win" in Florida, or disenfranchising Florida Democrats. When the rubber meets the road, what option do you really think they will choose?
If I were Barack Obama, I would be seriously worried. Hillary Clinton still possesses a tremendous capability to gum up the works.
I think I'm starting to agree...
If Obama loses PA then there is no way he'll get the nomination. Tonight in Mississippi the real victory went to Clinton. How? AP reports that she won 70% of the white vote. This shows a clear backlash against the clear racism shown by black voters who are going 90% for Obama.
The DNC and Democratic party insiders know he has no chance of carrying the southern states in the GE if this trend continues. Couple that with the fact that he has not won a single battleground state and you would be looking at one of the weakest candidates ever put up for a presidential race. McCain will blow him out in a landslide.
How will the DNC put an end to this? Shortly after PA they will announce they are seating the Florida and Michigan voters as is. They know this will put us through the roof but they're hoping we'll cool off by the time the convention rolls around. That's why you haven't heard anything from the black leadership...
Obama will either accept an 'offer you can't refuse' deal for VP or the Democrats will finish his political career behind closed doors.
Looks like the MSM is advancing 'the black candidate' meme!!!
"Broken down, the Mississippi vote had an unmistakable racial descant — and unmistakable limits for Obama. Exit polls revealed once again an emerging racial divide that has opened in the Democratic party between whites who tend by healthy margins to favor Clinton and blacks who overwhelmingly favor Obama. African Americans comprised nearly half of the Democratic vote in Mississippi — and 90% of those voters, according to exit polls, pulled the lever for Obama, his strongest showing yet among African Americans. But Obama did poorly among whites, winning only 30%, according to exit polls. While this split was visible in Alabama and the border state of Tennessee earlier this year, it was visible in Ohio's primary last week, too."
Oprah did not tell black voters to move en mass to Barack... she told them to take a closer look... at that point Hillary had them until her husband came out and told them how he really felt... Don't blame this on Oprah!!! Hillary would rather Mccain be president than Obama and she will get her wish and in return she will enhance her new courtship with her new "republican" fan base.
Trust me we will be fine if Barack loses.. it will hurt, but we come from a people who have had to endure way worse than this..I don't know if the Democratic party will be so lucky..
My grandmother always said be suspicious of liberals... at least you know where you stand with the other side.
lol
I think it is good news that there is opposition to a mail-in vote in Florida, because this makes it less likely that there will be any re-vote there at all. The "re-vote" is just a scam cooked up by Hillary supporters. They know she can't win without it.
And I think it is unlikely that the Florida delegates will be seated based on the illegitimate January primary; the outcry would be too great, and Howard Dean (DNC chair) opposes it.
Tonight in Mississippi the real victory went to Clinton. How? AP reports that she won 70% of the white vote. This shows a clear backlash against the clear racism shown by black voters who are going 90% for Obama.
That's right, blacks voting this way is due to racism but whites voting the other way are only reacting to black racism.
The DNC and Democratic party insiders know he has no chance of carrying the southern states in the GE if this trend continues.
Yes, because democrats so reliably carry southern states in presidential elections... And even if we accept your silly premise, then yeah, it totally makes sense to conclude that Hillary CAN win southern states based on the fact that she generally loses them in blow out fashion.
Couple that with the fact that he has not won a single battleground state
You mean like Missouri?
Clinton doesn't need the black vote right now, but in the general election--when the past elections ('00 and '04) have been so close--will need the black vote. I am calling on all blacks--and MS was a bellwether to prove that this could work--and all voters offended by the Clintons' "Kichen Sink Tactics" to absolutely not vote for her.
Now, I know there are some scary marys out there who will say "what about the courts." My response to that: nothing has ever come without sacrifice. When blacks participated in the Birmingham Bus Boycott do you think life was a picnic for them in the following years? When police officers unleashed dogs and firehoses on women and children do you think that was enjoyable for them? We will never get anywhere if fear paralyzes us from action (or inaction.
Sit Out the Vote '08
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/03/11/its-official-clinton-lost-texas/?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Cited DailyKOS just as JJPolitics.
Is it me or has reporting turned into surfing the web for hot stories INSTEAD of looking for the truth.
Better late than never.
Thanks for lighting a fire under me!!
I am going to Philly this weekend and like every weekend, I'm going to the city. I need to get every black person that is 18 years old registered (by March 24) and I need to tell them why Obama is the superior choice...no sitting back people!! Then I have friends at Penn State, Bucknell, Villanova, UPenn, Temple, Bryn Mawr, Carnegie Mellon and the list goes on. I will get there butts up too. It is a fight and I dont mean to sound dramati put Obama has to win this. If he does not then Hillary will be stronger than ever and the media will be right there in the bed with her Bill, Mayor Nutter, Maggie Willams, Geraldine Ferraro, Howard Wolfson, Stephanie Tubbs Jones and the rest.
Did Monica Lewinski endorse anybody...do u know?? We can use her too...everybody needs to do their part.
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Watch out sister...don't cross to the dark side!
He comeback after the hype was
""Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," Ferraro said. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"
Why are people not talking about it. They are acting like Obama and others are trying to cry foul and play the race card?? What the hell. I'm so done. The media are a bunch of idiots were the hell do they get these pundits and can I sign up please...I'm much smarter.
Imagine if it were the other way around. The Obama fundraiser would have to cut all ties...the person would not be able to raise money for him, he would have to "return" the money...I dont know. You could tell that people love that she said it...they probably were all feeling the same way.
this is what elections are about. the fight continues, uncertainty until the end. that's nothing new.
obama is a capable and viable candidate, and one doesn't have to be black or a politics insider or a deluded idealist to see that. there is nothing to be seen, he actually IS capable, and he remains viable as long as the race isn't over. little ups and downs mean zip.
obama will continue the fight against that woman, and it might actually be her who soon offers him the biggest help. her rethoric has already spun out of control.
and once the primaries are over, let him deal then with maccain. the main race has not even begun.
also then he'll be capable, he'll stay viable, and besides him maccain will turn out to be the bag of hot air i believe he is.
obama is in the race, and he might very well win it.
What to do now? Hillary has said we should all get back to the issues. Ferraro is not backing down and may whites will sympathize with her, not because they think she is speaking the truth, but that so many whites often fear being unjustly accused of racism. Many white people I know, don't know how to identify black(African-Americans or black?) and worry that any use of black slang in conversation, even if used in proper context, will be seen as offensive.
yeah, it's hard out there and it is nasty.
but i suggest humor as a means of deflecting fear and going into the counter offensive.
obama has shown a healthy irony some times, i think this, not hitting back in kind, can prove the ideal weapon.
if folks are ridiculous, well then let's just laugh!
Agreed. Obama on Today was cool as a cucumber. Made a joke about how the sure path to the White House is being an African American named Barack Obama. When asked if he thought it was a racist comment, he said no, it was just divisive politics of slicing & dicing the electorate. Gotta love the guy!
In case you haven't heard, Keith Olbermann will be making another one of his Special Comments tonight.
For the first time, he's targeting a DEMOCRAT . . . Hillary Clinton!
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/12/keith-... should be interesting. His special comments usually don't hold back. I'll be interested to see how he approaches Hillary.
Geraldine Ferraro strikes me as an angry, angry woman. There's a very insightful conversation with her here:
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/02/20080226_a_main.asp (30:20 onwards).
At one point she attacks a female caller for not being thankful enough for feminism.
This is the same crap that Obama had to deal with early on from the black establishment. But he managed to find a way through it (the "Joshua Generation" idea). Hillary, being of that generation, is still in the battle, not of it.
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Too funny!
Hey all you guys,
You're doing a great job! Props to all!
“It's fairly reprehensible that Geraldine Ferraro said "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position, and if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position"...But in a weird way, there's much less to this comment than meets the eye.
After all, Obama is not a woman, nor a white man. He's who he is. To say that if he were different, things would be different is to say nothing at all. As a white woman, maybe he would have led a military coup and established himself dictator. Who knows!?
Similarly, if Hillary Clinton were a black man, it's unlikely that she would have been a national political figure for the past 15 years, as it's unlikely that she would have married another man from Arkansas, and unlikely that the country would have put an interracial, same sex couple in the White House.”
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=03&year;=2008&base;_name=what_if_1#104963
Jack, Jill -- time for a full story on this????
Vaggie Ferrarro is just a distraction from what they don't want to pay attention to.
Tucker kicks Clinton adviser's ass:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_U3-HFcses0&NR;=1
It is about the Republicans gaming the Dem primaries for Clinton. I'm traveling now and don't have time, but this should be addressed by the msm and we need people to start asking them to bring this up when they talk about Clintons numbers. The numbers are not real wins for Clinton and also the superdelegates need to know that we all know what is going on here!
crossover votes in Miss. Ferraro
RSIGNS so she can speak freely!